— Seattle tech veteran David Aronchick is the new CEO of Expanso, the company he co-founded to promote adoption of the Bacalhau project. Expanso provides managed services on top of Bacalhau,… Read More
Amazon Web Services says it will invest $100 million in a new initiative to connect its machine learning and artificial intelligence experts with customers and partners to encourage and accelerate… Read More
Highspot is trimming headcount again. The Seattle-based sales software company confirmed that it laid off 15% of its workforce. The latest layoffs, which affect around 140 employees, follow a separate… Read More
Highspot is laying off about 100 employees, or 10% of its workforce, becoming the latest well-funded Seattle company to cut employees in response to economic uncertainity. “We must confront the… Read More
Venture capitalists slowed investments this year in response to the cooling economy. But some startups were still able to secure large sums of cash. The top 10 funding rounds across… Read More
Bhrighu Sareen was named president of product & engineering at sales enablement software startup Highspot. Sareen previously spent 17 years at Microsoft, most recently as corporate VP of Microsoft Teams.… Read More
The Seattle startup scene has been sizzling, and there are several up-and-coming companies are headed on a path toward becoming industry giants. Five of those fast-growing superstars are finalists for… Read More
— Microsoft alum Wendy Turner-Williams is now chief data officer at Tableau. She joined from Tableau’s parent company Salesforce where she was vice president of information management and strategy. At… Read More
Editor’s note: This post has been updated to add startups that were not initially included in the list. Icertis’ valuation was also updated. Another day, another unicorn spotting. These once… Read More
The news: Highspot raised another big round, this time reeling in $248 million as part of a Series F round. It is now valued at $3.5 billion, which is up… Read More
— Enterprise sales startup Highspot appointed four new executives: Arvind Prakash as VP of product management. Most recently VP of product management at real estate company Compass, Prakash was previously… Read More
Forbes has released its sixth annual Cloud 100 ranking of the world’s top private cloud companies, and four high-value startups from the Seattle area landed in the top 50. Tanium,… Read More
— Amazon-owned live streaming platform Twitch named Christine Weber as its new CTO. Weber was most recently chief information officer and interim chief technology officer at communications company Liberty Latin… Read More
Highspot has joined the growing list of billion-dollar startups sprouting up in the Seattle area. Seattle’s newest unicorn just raised a $200 million Series E round that values the 9-year-old… Read More
Julie Larson-Green, an engineering leader and executive who spent more than 25 years at Microsoft, is retiring from her position as the chief experience officer at Qualtrics. Her announcement follows… Read More
— George “Skip” Battle, the former CEO of AskJeeves, has resigned from Expedia Group’s board of directors. He originally joined the travel company’s board in 2005. Battle is a longtime… Read More
—Digital freight startup Convoy announced Sunita Solao, previously an HR leader at Airbnb, as vice president of people and a new member of the company’s executive team. “Finding the right… Read More
Seattle-area companies grabbed 13 spots on a list from Forbes on Tuesday that calls out “America’s Best Startup Employers.” The inaugural ranking from the magazine, in partnership with market research… Read More
Editor’s note: The GeekWire Awards are now virtual on July 23. It takes more than a ping-pong table to attract the next talented tech professional. Office spaces across the Seattle region… Read More
There’s a growing cohort of education tech companies across the Pacific Northwest. A flurry of up-and-coming startups are sprouting up in British Columbia. And while Seattle is an enterprise software… Read More
New funding: Seattle startup Highspot today announced a $75 million “Series D-1” investment round, bringing total funding for the 7-year-old company to more than $200 million. Existing investors ICONIQ Capital; Madrona… Read More
Across industries, despite the tide of automation and artificial intelligence, most companies still employ humans to deal with customers for important interactions, whether that is through customer service, sales or… Read More
Highspot will soon have a new spot to call home. The startup that builds artificial intelligence-powered sales software has leased two floors with options to take more at the World… Read More
Artificial intelligence is one of the Seattle area’s fastest-growing tech frontiers, so it only makes sense for the field to get its own category at the GeekWire Awards. Recognizing innovations… Read More
Open-source database firm InfluxData has a new SVP of engineering in Jim Walsh, who formerly held a similar role at Salesforce. Time series databases, like the one InfluxData created, are… Read More
After raising a $35 million Series C round in September, Highspot is adding a prominent new leader to its team: Former Adobe and Microsoft executive Jon Perera, who will serve as… Read More
During the last stretch of a 16-year career at Microsoft, Robert Wahbe was responsible for equipping sales teams with necessary information to help craft a perfect pitch to potential customers.… Read More
The summer can be a slow time in the business world, but that doesn’t appear to be the case in the Pacific Northwest startup community. Numerous startups in Seattle and… Read More
Highspot thinks its artificial intelligence models are making sales organizations much more efficient, and it has raised $15 million in new funding to go out and prove it at scale.… Read More
Smartsheet, the Next Tech Titan award winner at the 2016 GeekWire Awards, has been fulfilling that potential lately. Smartsheet is close to cracking the top 5 of the GeekWire 200 list… Read More